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Brasseye posted:drat there are 5 of those games already? To be honest half the appeal to GFP for me is dressing up my character like an idiot. Anyway at least there are some decent RPGs coming out for ps3 next year. It's just a fancy title, there's only 3 of them so far. Although if I'm not mistaken, there's something like 3 or 4 more games being made right now. I guess they found their target audience of weirdos and they goble up everything they make for some sweet profits.
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Catalina posted:It's not IV, but the 3DS shop has a demo of Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl, which is a remake of EO1. You can try it to see how it plays. How'd the transition to 3D and change from FM music go? Some people seemed bitter about messing around with the formula when that first got announced.
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Million Ghosts posted:I say this with love; you are a dumb motherfucker. Honestly I'm kinda in the same boat. Seeing all these RPGs on consoles and portables I can't own is driving me nuts and I need something turn-based no matter how bad to get my fix (although Agarest does seem bad even in that regard).
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SpaceDrake posted:That's actually been an accelerating trend for years now (and I'm going to Here's a dumb question: how does situation vary between big AAA companies, smaller ones, and the independent producers? From what I understand, it seems the latter two pretty much have nothing to lose by having PC versions while the bigger companies are making too big of an investment for too little pay-off. Does that sound about right or do I have a wrong/oversimplified impression? HGH fucked around with this message at 09:16 on Jul 3, 2014 |
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out and claim a little bit of the credit, here), but it's still pretty much a "let's do that for titles we export" thing. There is no incentive, currently, for Japanese developers to produce PC versions of their games for their domestic market. The consumer base has demonstrated a marked lack of interest in such products. Unless there's a further sea change in how the Japanese play their videogames, it simply isn't going to happen by default because Japanese developers have no incentive to take on the extra cost.
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Since Atelier is being brought up a bunch, I suppose I should mention that Koei Tecmo are conducting big feedback surveys on Rorona+ and the series right now (first link is NA, second is EU).
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Speaking of Atelier again, I hear Gust is done for for real this time? As in, it's fully merged with TK and they've dissolved the brand name? Mostly getting this from a rough look at this file. Supposedly this doesn't actually mean anything for actual game development though. evilalien posted:This game was translated by a different group and there are a lot of annoyances like this. They inverted the order and now S is bigger. There are also inconsistent translations like "falling stars" and "meteor" used to refer to the same thing, and a number of effects have totally wrong descriptions. HGH fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Jul 29, 2014 |
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Jul 29, 2014 15:16
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Baltazar Robotnik posted:How long has it been since this was really true? straight jerkers posted:That's dumb as hell on SNK's part. I guess Capcom didn't mind all of the references to Street Fighter 2 because, you know, it's obviously not detrimental to their business. And something about this is weird because all the other featured companies were confirmed to be contacted and had their explicit approval granted, so it seems odd to single out SNK.
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Ah, I think I recall something about CT's plot. The first real part of the story has you sort of solving a time paradox but you never do nor hear about that sort of thing again, and then there's the weird Entity scene you mentioned. From what I recall there was some problem with the writers for the game and at some point one of them left or something, which might explain sudden weird shifts in the storytelling.
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Oh boy, Square Enix remembered Live a Live! For mobile phones  I hope this fad for sticking old RPGs on phones with overpriced price tags and way worse assets stops soon...
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This is a bit of an odd question but are there any games out there that let you freely manipulate your levels? I'm wondering about this because I saw an interesting concept. All EXP sits in a pool and you can level up whoever you want whenever you want manually, but you could also level them down at no cost, allocate stat bonuses that you could later reallocate for free, set your whole party to a specific level... It just seemed like a lot of customizability and it feels weird I've never seen this in a commercial game, so maybe I'm missing out on something here. EDIT: Basically there's a menu like this:  The level unification thing is there cause beating bosses with your whole party below a specific "challenge level" gives you bonus items/prizes. HGH fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Sep 12, 2014 |
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kirbysuperstar posted:Dunno about TTT, but Fairy Fencer is a totally average JRPG with little to no redeeming features apart from the pedigree of a couple people working on it. Considering it's Compile Heart though that's actually pretty high praise. Levantine posted:I'm playing Fairy Fencer F now and it's alright. TBH, I'm quickly getting bored with it but it has some neat stuff going on with the battle system and some customization. Soundtrack is cheesy but kind of fun. Gamefly it maybe, that's what I did. They seem to have really underused Amano. Then again apparently he's always wanted to just draw "cute" stuff if I recall correctly. I don't know who the writer is but the game pulls off a Bravely Default time loop to make you go through it again (beats CH's usual lack of an excuse I guess). The game also feels like a really off brand FF7 but with more dumb stuff. I also liked the customization but I guess it's not the most original thing around. Although I have to ask, is the game a bit on the easy side actually? It also seems to suffer from "too many party members" syndrome. And yeah it feels like Uematsu made the cheesiest track ever for an RPG. It'd be right at home in a Power Rangers episode. The rest is not annoying but not memorable. Ultimately with all the repetition and framerate issues it's definitely a rental at most (unless you just love mediocre stuff). It seems pretty short too. EDIT: You may also like the game if you enjoy incredibly Canadian voices. I'm not sure what's up with that accent but I haven't heard so many "Eh"s and "Aboot"s in... well, ever. Actually I'd love a Canadian dubbed JRPG. Man this month is packed. Or what's left of it anyway. Feels like I'm starting to get a backlog, but it beats a drought I guess. HGH fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Sep 30, 2014 |
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Renoistic posted:I played PE3 (yeah, I know...) and the game plays a remix of that song during one of the later boss fights which was enough to make it nerve wrecking and scary. Clearly this calls for a techno remix! Sorta. It was sorta appropriate and a nice callback since the boss in question was an enemy that hounded you throughout the game and would always one hit kill you if its attacks connected, plus it was indestructible. And it also did the same thing when you finally confronted it which made the fight a painful slog since you could only harm it with specially spawning soldiers that took forever to come back. I wish Yoko Shimomura worked on more projects. HiveCommander posted:Oh god, the transformation music The second half of the game also changes up the combat music and unfortunately uses something less cheesy and more "dramatic" I guess. Nice guitars though. HGH fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Oct 2, 2014 |
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dis astranagant posted:Well, he's kinda been shot to pieces, poisoned and given bioengineered turbo ebola. Although the way you get the bullets that beat it was rad. Nothing beats jumping from a chopper in midair, bursting into flames while accurately tossing a clip of bullets onto a ship, and then somehow surviving landing into the ocean. It's too bad your cop buddy wasn't in the sequel.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:In other RPG news.. I've been playing this for a week now. It has the aesthetic of a gameboy FF game and it's pretty fun, aside from some bullshit insta-death stuff(but that was an optional thing anyway). I dunno about being Adam Ant though...is that even a band name?
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Thuryl posted:He worked on the music for Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory as well. Compile Heart must have some serious dirt on him. wateyad posted:Alternatively, he's a freelance composer for hire and they're willing to pay the rates he charges for one or two songs so that they can publicise that he worked on the game (while playing down that he only actually wrote one or two songs). You can usually find out this sorta stuff by looking up the credits I think. If I recall correctly, both Uematsu and Kenji Ito (the guy who did the SaGa music for the most part) worked on these games and had about 8 tracks a piece each? Some were distributed among Uematsu's band mates too. I also remember a bunch more being outsourced too.
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I don't really care about this stuff but I'm hearing some uproar over FF13 on PC, and I'm sure this doesn't matter for the most part but I figure someone might care:quote:-completely locked at 720p That's pretty drat huge for a game size though.
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DARKSEID DICK PICS posted:It's NOT. Whoever claimed that was a loving liar. Eh, sorry for not checking my sources. I don't really have an opinion about it but seeing so much outrage on multiple sites I figured I may as well warn people or something. Welp, turns I was wrong.
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The way the genre is these days I wouldn't be surprised. I can maybe see his point if he's only played something like Sorcery Saga or FFF, which aren't as bad as Neptunia or Agarest. Although Ar No Surge kinda has all of their games beat so far for me.
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The Taint Reaper posted:That's going to be hard since most of them never married, and men and pillows cannot reproduce viable offspring. Aren't they mostly women? EDIT: I got it wrong, they make visual novels for women apparently(or whatever otome means). EDIT2: Seems I wasn't that off at least, the director, producer and designer all are. HGH fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Oct 14, 2014 |
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All I know about Battle Princess is that it's supposedly kinda short and its artstyle looks a bit flash-like. What's so bad about it?
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Jeez, that looks like it was made on a 7.50$ budget. Well, at least Patrick Seitz makes for a silly narrator/previewer.
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To this day Unlimited SaGa still completely baffles me. I brought out my PS2 and played it for an hour and still had no idea what I was doing.
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Polite Tim posted:Is it worth picking up the latest game then if I despised the first one? NikkolasKing posted:Shame about that game-breaking glitch. That was some bullshit so I just sold my copy already after beating it because there's no way to beat the post-game without the Mugen Field. It took them like... 3 months to patch that? 4 months? These localization induced bugs always take forever to fix, if they get fixed that is.
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Variant_Eris posted:I'll be honest here. Despite A Blurred Line being good and all, I preferred Alter A.I.L.A. / Alter A.I.L.A. Genesis much more. The music, multiple paths/story, and intriguing characters stood out to me a lot more than A Blurred Line did. Oh man I remember playing that ages ago. Looking at it now it's pretty goofy but the second game did some interesting mechanics stuff despite being an RPGMaker game. EDIT: I completely forgot this game had a bunch of drawn scenes too. HGH fucked around with this message at 01:12 on Nov 13, 2014 |
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I think the developers had some ambitions with developing the whole timeline system, but ultimately had to settle with an Original and Alternate one because it'd just get too convoluted otherwise. Plus system limitations etc... It's more of a collectathon actually. You wanna see how many bad endings you can get really. Some of them are obvious and just require a moment's thought on what to do or not to do. Some are absolutely absurd and ridiculous such as fruits causing the end of the world or Marco going berserk and slaughtering the entire party cause his would be girlfriend died. Most are really there to gate progression though. But yeah, if you don't really care for seeing where all the timelines could possibly go, just pick what seems like the most logically sound option. You never really lose too much progress I think anyway.
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I sure can't wait for the PS4's first exclusive JRPG. Made by everyone's favourite dated graphics company too.
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Baltazar Robotnik posted:play last rebellion it is the best Wasn't that the game so bad the localizers had to apologize for picking it up? EDIT: Pfff oh man they really did: quote:Once we got Last Rebellion we realized it was not the kind of title we should release in the United States because of its quality. I feel really sorry for our customers because we released that title. That’s why I told Nao (PR Manager) we have to release the announcement for Last Rebellion, but never push that title. We cannot say it’s a really great title. We felt really sorry, but we had no choice to release that. And yet the company managed to stay alive for 5 more years despite not releasing a single game since. Huh. So what the heck was that game like anyway? HGH fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Nov 20, 2014 |
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You're missing out on Steve Buscemi in an FF movie though. And James Woods apparently? HGH fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Nov 29, 2014 |
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Panic! at Nabisco posted:Did...did we play different Sting games named Gungnir? Sting games seem to be really divisive.
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Daler Mehndi posted:The main thing I remember about these games (I haven't played them) is seeing a sequence of some girls arguing with GaoGaiGar about CUSTOM FIRMWARE BAD It's pretty hamhanded.
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I remember this picture of every protagonist from every single Tales games and it was comparing how practical their outfits were. Using a belt-o-meter. EDIT: Found it. 
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OneDeadman posted:Breath of Fire V is pretty rad breath of fire game in a weird "hey we made a linear RPG rougelike of your beloved series" kind of way. I really have to ask but... was Breath of Fire ever any good? It seems like a series plagued with awful design decisions, even if the first few didn't have really weird translations. Roobanguy posted:i remember liking warsong, but its been a while. That's the "localized" Langrisser, right?
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I'm gonna admit I also had Dragon Quarter in mind, but I don't think it was plain bad as much as it was experimental.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHl988vU-TM To quote someone else: dun dun DUN DUN dun dun DUN DUN It gets seared into your memory what with the obnoxious turns and dead ends that force you to start over. I'm partial to its remix from the sequel that shouldn't be mentioned though.
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bloodychill posted:But they did make sequels and we got 3rd Birthday, a ho-hum game with a story that sort of made you want to have its writer arrested. I'm a day late on this one but, would you like who that wonderful writer is? The wonderful man who brought us Lightning, Toriyama himself. Shoulda seen his stench all over that game.
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Rascyc posted:Any RPGs yet on the PS4 that make it worthy of purchase (minus DAI because PC) Would you like to sample Compile Heart's amazing selection of games? Cause that's all we're getting till like, summer 2015. Well, there is the FF-Type Zero rerelease in March I think.
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I feel like butting into this discussion to mention there's an Ao Oni movie.
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I'm pretty sure you can't quote yourself on the back of your own box. HGH fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Jan 4, 2015 |
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